A Pedagogy of Death, Decay & Destruction: Sanctuary Making
An awkward, affectionate, attempt at momentary transmogrification as inquiry… A thanks giving ritual to the generative nature of death and dying… A testing of a deck of cards for practical and oracular possibilities… In the growth based paradigms of modernity, the unravelling and falling apart that is essential to life has been lost in the stories we are told. Looking to the teachers of demise and emergence in the more- than-human world can offer something of a homecoming to our wider being. What might we encounter in hanging out in the company of vultures, maggots, forest fires or detritivores? What flirtations or invocations might arise in re/membering kinship with these ones? This work taps into the wisdom of compost, termites and hurricanes, of elephant feet, beavers and fallen trees. This session is part of a wider inquiry you can read about here, and builds on the ten course: Vulture and the seeds of Vulture: A Compostancy / Un-Consultancy.